Trustees annual report for Kingswinford Christian fellowship (charity) The past year for us has been a good year, as a church we have continued to grow as a body and the work that we do in the community. We regularly welcome in outside groups such as the Stroke Association and Highflyers (a support group for those with learning difficulties). Our stay and playgroup for pre school children continues to grow and flourish and our warm bank (warm welcome) has become a a regular fixture during the colder months, offering those who are struggling a place to enjoy a free warm drink, company and a place to seek help and advice. Our links with the community outside the building continues to grow as well, and alongside the Kingswinford Community group we continue to help with the Light switch on events, an upcoming summer festival and other events. We still maintain strong ties with the Townsend place market and have run several times of outreach on the marketplace. Our children’s work continues to grow under the directorship of our children’s leader and now we our turning our eye to how we can support our older children (13 up). We have also thanks to the faithfulness of the fellowship been able to sow into other projects both in the UK and Abroad, helping support UK organisations like ReachOut (homeless ministry), St Alfreds School and local missionaries. Further afield we have been able to continue to support our mission partners in Brazil we are also continuing to support missions work in Columbia, including sending over one of our team to work with a local organisation. We have been blessed with a wonderful building where the fellowship and ministries meet and operate from, however time has not been kind to the building, and we are now in the position of looking to replace our boiler and several windows in the building as well as beginning plans to update the bathroom facilities. While we would normally look at grants to help with this due to other circumstances (see below) we currently aren’t in a position to do so and for now will have to rely on the kindness of the congregation and fundraising, thanks to their kindness we have now completed stage one of the boiler repairs with the installation of a new smaller boiler to heat the main hall area, we hope to fit a second boiler to heat the rest of the building in stage 2 during 2024 We are still in the middle of trying to sort out the new/old charity with delays on getting things signed and other issues and so we are now projecting that it won’t be resolved until end of 2024 which is a lot longer and unfortunately costing more than we originally estimated and budgeted, however we know that once it is done it will put us as a charity in a good position for many years to come Brian Bassingthwaighte Chair of Trustees Income and Expenditure Account Kingswinford Christian Centre Forthe yearended 31 December2023 2023 Income Donationstospecific cause GiftAid 2,837.00 B,872.75 Mission donations 500.00 QFFerings Patches 31,527.94 1,200.00 Tithes 9,847.00 Dlrect Expenses 84.84 Income 54,869.53 Administrative Costs 8ankFees 362.50 General Expenses Insurarbce 1,070.95 2,350.98 IT SoftrNare and Consumables 547.93 Legal Expense5 Light. Power. Heating 1,659.40 3,L41.99 11,329.08 Missions- CSR Horwood 2,450.00 Ilotorvehicle Expenses Printing & gtationery Repairs & Idaintenance Staff Salaries 85.00 420.54 6,599.77 22,373.79 Subscription5 Telephone& Internet Total Administrative Costs 215.82 540.55 53.148.30 Excess IncomeoverExpenditure 1.721.23 Income 8￿d Expenditure KIng$￿￿f0rd Christian Centre 11 Sept2024 Pagelofl